“â€œEvery single thing you see is future trash. EVERYTHING.â€

…[another]Â cognitive problem is: Every single thing you see is future trash. Everything. So we are surrounded by ephemera, but we canâ€™t acknowledge that, because itâ€™s kind of scary, because I think ultimately it points to our own temporariness, to thoughts that weâ€™re all going to die.

So says Robin Nagle [anthropologist-in-residence at New York Cityâ€™s Department of Sanitation (DSNY), since 2006]…